This is not to say that there are good, hell, even great developers out there but for the most part they are not seen. If you take a look at the Maemo (I keep coming back to this as this is the only one I know of), you see no cohesiveness. Just a project here or there. Half finished, or in a state that only developer can wade through and use. The N800 will live or die based on useable applications that the common man can use. This is an expensive device that up to now has pretty much limited usability. There should be (here come the flames) some sort of criteria to post your applications to Maemo. It should not just be a wild west free for all enviroment because I for one (speaking only for myself here), do not see any really useful applications. If Open Source is such a godsend to the computing world, why is there no sync applications, why no reliable GAIM type applications. It seems that Maemo exists as an applications dumping ground with little hope of resurrection.

As one poster stated, people get married, divorced, go to jail, etc.... If this is the case then pull the developers app and trash it. Why leave it to take up space and sit in the application grave yard that Maemo is quickly becoming. Also, why not hae a section (maybe I missed it) for 2005, 2006, 2007 and multi-year applications instead of a "post it all and hope it works on your N800" section. I have read in this very forum that users thought they had an app that works only to be told "Oh, wow, you must have the wrong library or the incorrect this or that". Why does it have to be this way. A little self policing would be in order here. If the apps are old, remove them. It can not be that hard.